Wild Waves and Enchanted Village TR

[Space Freak]

So I have been spending the summer up in Everett Washington doing an internship at Boeing. Well, a few weeks ago I tried to organize a trip to Wild Waves and Enchanted Village so I could get the 4 measly credits. Unfortunately, because I don’t have a car I have to rely on other people to get me around. My roommate said he would drive and I got confirmation from several other interns. Well, I woke up on the Saturday we were supposed to go and my roommate decided he didn’t want to go so I had to cancel on a bunch of people which was disappointing. Anyway, this past Saturday a bunch of the Interns that I work with decided to go hiking on Mount St Helens, which I must say was absolutely amazing. Well on the way home, the guy who was driving some how mentioned the amusement park and said “he wanted to go… as long as he didn’t get ditched again.” I didn’t realize that he was one of the people that I had confirmed that wanted to go the first time, so I said, “Oh yeah, that was me! What are you doing tomorrow?” he said nothing, so we decided to head down there on Sunday.

 

So we got to the park and the parking lot was absolutely full. I was surprised to find that parking was only 7 bucks apposed to all the other six flags parks. And of course it was crowded with tons to pre-teens. We parked our car, and headed for the gate. The driver, who from this point forward will be referred to as “John” because quite frankly, that’s his name, had to buy his ticket at the gate so I waited for him. The guy that was supposed to be checking bags for whatever it is they check for wasn’t even looking inside the bags, and a couple of times he just let people go through. Way to do your job dude! So we go through the gate and we decided to head up to the back of the park towards the wooden coaster Timberhawk. On our way we decided to ride the pirate ship, which was fun as usual. Despite the number of people at the park, most of them were at the water park which left the lines for most of the rides extremely short. So, we got on the front seat and the last seat of Timberhawk, which was my first S&S Power coaster. It was an Ok coaster, nothing to write home about, but I can definitely see being about as rough as SFNE Cyclone in about 10 years.

 

After Timberhawk, we walked down the hill and hit up the Wild Mouse, which was pathetic. There was one part of the ride where the hairpin turn was interrupted by about 6 feet of straight track which hurt quite a bit. Of course, in all of Six Flags’ style, they were running 3 cars, of which one of the cars had only two seats because the restraints were busted. So, pleasantly disappointed, we headed to the powered Kiddie Coaster. That ride was the first time that I have head a ride operator say “Please keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times, unless you want to hold your hands up high!” Well, we went around about 8 times before the ride op decided to let us off. I wanted to turn left so bad after I got off that thing…

 

Next up, we did the dry slide, which is one of those things you find at a carnival where you sit on a potato sack and slide down the wee wee hills. Then, we walked back up the hill and hit up the bumper cars which were ok. Finally, we headed down the hill and did the Wild Thing, the Arrow Loop and Corkscrew. Now, I am not sure if its common practice to let the riders to go through the course twice in a row, but that’s what they were doing. As a result, the line was about 40 minutes long. Not to mention that the brake run is only long enough to run one train.

 

Finally, we decided to get wet so we jumped in the wave pool, then hit up the lazy river for about 30 minutes before we realized that we lost our locker key. Luckily someone had returned it and did not bother to find our locker and jack our stuff. After we were relieved to hear that, we headed back to Timberhawk and called it a day.

 

On our drive home, we drove past a pick up truck that was completely burned out. The fire trucks were there and everything. It was pretty amazing and I hope no one was inside it when it caught fire. It literally looked like the cars engine or fuel tank or something exploded. There wasn’t much left of the car. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures to share with you all because I am cheap and haven’t bought a digital camera yet…

 

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